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Joey Goebel

Joey Goebel, born in 1980 in Henderson, Kentucky, is a writer, scriptwriter, and musician – an internationally celebrated multi-talent. His novels Torture the Artist, The Anomalies and Commonwealth have been published in 15 languages. Joey Goebel has a son and lives in Henderson, where he teaches English literature.

Awards

›Festival-Preis‹ des Internationalen Festivals und Kolloquiums ›Days and Nights of Literature‹ (Rumänien), 2009

Nominierung für den Kritikerpreis in der Altersgruppe 16–18 Jahre der Jury der jungen Leser für Freaks, 2007

›Silberner Lufti, Lufti-Jugendbuchpreis‹ für Freaks, 2007

Nominierung von Torture the Artist (Vincent) für die Longlist des ›Dylan Thomas Prize‹ in England, 2006

›Jugendbuchpreis‹ der Jury der jungen Kritiker in Wien für Vincent, 2006

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»Wickedly ingenious [...] Goebel's ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page.«

Caroline Leavitt / Boston Globe

»Joey Goebel writes with the passion and humour of a modern day Mark Twain.«

Daulton Dickey / Pop Matters

»Joey Goebel is being acclaimed as a literary discovery of the calibre of a John Irving or T. C. Boyle.«

Stefan Maelck / Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg

»So as Fitzgerald tagged his generation’s excesses and delusions in ›The Great Gatsby‹ and Bret Easton Ellis did the same in the 1980s with ›Less Than Zero‹, Joey Goebel grabs the Zeitgeist by the nape of the neck and gives it a good twirl...«

Pages Magazine, USA

»Joey Goebel is a quirky, fresh, and relevant voice for our time.«

Library Journal, USA

»Like a sleepwalker, the author strolls through the pop-cultural iconic universe as earlier authors moved among the Grecian gods.«

Evelyn Finger / Die Zeit, Hamburg

»There is hope as long as we have young writers like Joey Goebel.«

Die Welt, Berlin

»Read this incredible author!«

Benedict Wells

»Joey Goebel is being acclaimed as a literary discovery of the calibre of a John Irving or T. C. Boyle.«

Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Pages Magazine

»Wickedly ingenious ... Goebel’s ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page.«

Boston Globe

»Joey Goebel is a quirky, fresh, and relevant voice for our time.«

Library Journal

»Against this type of storytelling, the contemporary stars of American realism—from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen ... seem like a bunch of schmucks.«

Die Zeit

»There is hope as long as we have young writers like Joey Goebel.«

Die Welt

»Wickedly ingenious [...] Goebel's ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page.«

Caroline Leavitt / Boston Globe

»Joey Goebel writes with the passion and humour of a modern day Mark Twain.«

Daulton Dickey / Pop Matters

»Joey Goebel is being acclaimed as a literary discovery of the calibre of a John Irving or T. C. Boyle.«

Stefan Maelck / Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg

Pages Magazine, USA

»Joey Goebel is a quirky, fresh, and relevant voice for our time.«

Library Journal, USA

»Like a sleepwalker, the author strolls through the pop-cultural iconic universe as earlier authors moved among the Grecian gods.«

Evelyn Finger / Die Zeit, Hamburg

»There is hope as long as we have young writers like Joey Goebel.«

Die Welt, Berlin

»Read this incredible author!«

Benedict Wells

»Joey Goebel is being acclaimed as a literary discovery of the calibre of a John Irving or T. C. Boyle.«

Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Pages Magazine

»Wickedly ingenious ... Goebel’s ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page.«

Boston Globe

»Joey Goebel is a quirky, fresh, and relevant voice for our time.«

Library Journal

»Against this type of storytelling, the contemporary stars of American realism—from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen ... seem like a bunch of schmucks.«

Die Zeit

»There is hope as long as we have young writers like Joey Goebel.«

Die Welt

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